In a meeting with the US House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, Robert Ford, the former US ambassador to Syria, said that airstrikes against the Islamic State have helped Assad and “hurt the moderate opposition”.

The report states that hundreds of thousands of Turkey’s 1.6 million Syrian refugees are living in “destitution”, and that refugees trying to cross into Turkey have been met with live fire from border guards, which killed at least 17 people between December 2013 and August 2014.